http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071012/wl_nm/vatican_templars_dc;_ylt=AqrpP83QrhthEAn_qQn4kgWs0NUE
2007-10-13 06:06:11 · 17 answers · asked by Ramjet 5 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
I am anxious to see what the text actually holds. With a price tag like that I will have to wait until it hits paperback. ;). I honestly think that the Church found it to put and end to the ridiculous speculation that the Knights Templar were some mystic all knowing group.. They were tortured terribly, but they weren't really nice guys either. It was a brutal time. People thought nothing of torturing their enemies, innocent folk and babies..No group was spared, no group was innocent.
2007-10-13 06:18:26 · answer #1 · answered by PROBLEM 7 · 2⤊ 0⤋
I only confirms what most historians had been claiming all along. The Inquisition was NOT about eliminating evil from Europe, It was about consolidating wealth and power among the old establishment of the Holy Roman Empire.
BB,
Raji the Green Witch
2007-10-13 07:56:17 · answer #2 · answered by Raji the Green Witch 7 · 4⤊ 0⤋
Four centuries to "pardon" Galileo; seven centuries to admit that, welllll, okaaayyy, the Knights Templar weren't heretics. Any day now, Pope Whosit the Ninetieth will observe, "ya know, we really shouldn't have encouraged our followers to burn the Library of Alexandria. Our bad."
I'm unimpressed.
2007-10-13 06:16:28 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋
Very interesting, in that the entire justification of the Spanish Inquisition is now questionable. It also calls into doubt all decisions and pronouncements by Catholic Popes' throughout history. How many have been made in self-interest and paybacks, rather than divine inspiration?
2007-10-13 06:11:39 · answer #4 · answered by lowflyer1 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Should this prove to be true and factual, it will lift a veil on secrets and centuries old rumors and half truths.
It is time the truth be told, good or bad.
I wonder if found not guilty can any surviving relatives claim financial compensation
2007-10-13 06:13:18 · answer #5 · answered by P.A.M. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hi....
The knight templars knew the truth, that Jesus was 'not' the son of a god and never actually existed!!
2007-10-13 06:10:40 · answer #6 · answered by Paul222@England 5 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Thanks Rammie! I am very interested in the Templar Knights, even before Dan Brown made it popular. Kisses!
2007-10-13 08:48:56 · answer #7 · answered by Starjumper the R&S Cow 7 · 3⤊ 0⤋
read it yesterday. didn't really see the relevance being as the templars aren't around any more and being as the church doesn't have much power over the people any more and is just as irrelevant.
2007-10-13 06:09:30 · answer #8 · answered by Sexy house music 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋
I bet there's loads of other secret religious documents out there that we have yet to know about.
2007-10-13 07:57:30 · answer #9 · answered by ♆Şрhĩņxy - Lost In Time. 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think that it's very sad that the Catholic Church continues to conceal information from people (ie, "secret" documents).
2007-10-13 06:10:53 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 3⤊ 0⤋